Word: murderable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson Administration's plagues, none was so virulent as the credibility gap. Yet last week Washington witnessed one of those painful rituals in which the White House was forced to acknowledge-after earlier evasions -that the President had, after all, been personally involved in the dismissal of murder charges against the Green Berets...
...Irish-American policeman. The policeman, cited on two separate occasions for bravery, says the youth attacked him with a penknife. He pumped five bullets into the teenager's chest. No knife is ever found. Browning (and black America) recognizes the killing for what it is: cold-blooded murder. His faith in the country completely shattered, he arranges through the Mafia a contract for the policeman's death...
Browning believes this process of selective assassination will produce two results. It will alert black America that the word now is to be cool and kill an eve for an eye thus letting white America know that it can no longer wantonly murder blacks without retribution. He hopes that it will also head off massive unorganized ghetto revolts in which only blacks suffer. But Browning's hopes crumple like a dynamited bridge, as the policeman's death touches off an uncontrollable swirl of events...
...government dropped murder charges against eight Green Berets last week, and now the Army refuses to say that Chuyen is dead. "There is no evidence that he is dead," one spokesman said. Chuyen's body was allegedly dumped in the South China Sea and has not been recovered...
...Affair" was in the news again. Three months ago Bishop Matthias Defregger, 54, of Munich, was publicly accused of having participated in the wartime executions of 17 men from the Italian village of Filetto di Camarda; Defregger, then a Wehrmacht captain, had passed on the execution order avenging the murder of one or more German soldiers. Authorities in Frankfurt eventually dropped the case. Last week, however, the Munich prosecutor had taken up the Defregger affair and was contemplating charges...